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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
She knows a sucker when she sees one.
( Action / Comedy / Horror )


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MPAA Rating:
PG-13

US Runtime: 86 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Jul 24, 1992   [USA]
 
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui   [Director]
 
Writer: Joss Whedon   [Writer]
 
Producers: Carol Baum   [Executive Producer]
Alex Butler   [Associate Producer]
Sandy Gallin   [Executive Producer]
Fran Rubel Kuzui   [Executive Producer]
Kaz Kuzui   [Producer]
Dennis Stuart Murphy   [Co-Producer]
Howard Rosenman   [Producer]
 
Cinematography: James Hayman   [Director of Photography]
 
Edited by: Jill Savitt   [Editor]
Camilla Toniolo   [Editor]
 
Music Composed by Carter Burwell   [Original Music Composer]
 
Production Design: Lawrence Miller   [Production Design]
 
Costume Design: Marie France   [Costume Design]
 
Casting by Johanna Ray   [Casting]
 
Production Companys: 20th Century Fox   (US)
Kuzui Enterprises   (US)
Sandollar
Sandollar Productions   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.

Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

Kristy Swanson
Buffy Summers
Donald Sutherland
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Paul Reubens
Amilyn
Rutger Hauer
Lothos
Luke Perry
Oliver Pike
Hilary Swank
Kimberly Hannah
Michele Abrams
Jennifer
David Arquette
Benny
Natasha Gregson Wagner
Cassandra
Thomas Jane
Zeph
 
Ricki Lake
Charlotte
Stephen Root
Gary Murray
Sasha Jenson
Grueller
Candy Clark
Buffy's Mom
Paris Vaughan
Nicole 'Nicki'
Randall Batinkoff
Jeffrey
Andrew Lowery
Andy
Mark DeCarlo
Coach
James Paradise
Buffy's Dad
David Sherrill
Knight
 
 

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Miscellaneous Companies:

American Humane Association
animal action supervision
CD Casting
extras casting
Cinema Research Corporation
titles and opticals
Denon
thanks
 
Kona Cutting
negative cutting
Mario's Catering
catering
Poetic Justice
title design: main titles
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$7,000,000
Revenue:
$16,624,456
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color (DeLuxe)
Laboratory:
DeLuxe, USA
Sound Mix:
the double-d symbol Dolby
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm

Quotes:

  • [Benny is floating outside Pike's window]
    Benny: Let me in, Pike. I'm hungry!
    Pike: You're floating! Get outta here!
     
  • [After punching Merrick.]
    Buffy: Oh, wow. I, I, never hit anyone before.
    Merrick: Really? Well you did it perfectly.
    Buffy: I didn't even break a nail.
     
  • Merrick: None of the other girls ever gave me this much trouble.
    Buffy: And where are they now? Hello!
     
  • Buffy: All I want to do is graduate from high school, move to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. Now that might not sound too great to a sconehead like you, but I think it's swell. And now you show up and tell me I'm a member of the hairy mole club so you can THROW things at me? I don't THINK so.
     
  • Buffy: My secret weapon is PMS.
     

Trivia:

  • Ben Affleck appears as an extra (a basketball player).
     
  • Buffy's last name is never mentioned in the movie. Not until the release of the series was she referred to as Buffy Summers.
     
  • In the original version of the script, Merrick committed suicide to escape being turned into a vampire by Lothos, who wanted to know the Slayer's identity so he could kill her.
     
  • Seth Green, the only person in the movie to be in the spin-off show, was cut from the movie, but still appears on the video cover.
     

Credits Fun:

  • Amilyn revives to go through some more death throes.
     
  • TV interviews with people at the dance that were attacked by vampires.
     

DVD Easter Eggs: (Hidden So You Don't See Anything You Don't Want To See)



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